Enslaved people used codes to mark graves on plantation grounds.
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Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Celebrated in New Exhibit | Baltimore Magazine
Work by artist Ed Towles featured at The Frederick Douglass-Issac Myers Maritime Museum.
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5 Women Who Changed How We Think About Race | The New York Times
Amisha Padnani , The New York Times [dropcap]Devah[/dropcap] Pager, a Harvard sociologist who died on Nov. 2, demonstrated the tenacious power of race in hiring decisions. We looked back through our obituary archives and found five other women, some recently deceased, whose thinking had an impact on our understanding of race. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] 1862–1931 Ida […]
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‘The Kissing Case’ And The Lives It Shattered | NPR
In 1958, James Hanover Thompson and his friend David Simpson — both African-American, both children — were accused of kissing a girl who was white.
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The Double Battle | The Nation
Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade.
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Remembering Birmingham’s ‘Dynamite Hill’ Neighborhood | NPR
Long before the Civil Rights marches of 1963 thrust Birmingham, Ala. into the national spotlight, black families along one residential street were steadily chipping away at Jim Crow segregation laws — and paying a price for it.
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Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook | The Undefeated
50 years ago, he worked with John Carlos and Tommie Smith for Black Power. Now, he’s talking with Colin Kaepernick.
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom review: a monumental biography | The Guardian
David Blight has written a must-read life of the escaped slave who held America ‘to the lightning scorn of moral indignation’
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‘I’m ecstatic’: black liberation prisoner Mike Africa Sr released after 40 years | The Guardian
Member of the radical Philadelphia-based group Move 9, sentenced after violent confrontation with police in 1978, reunited with wife Debbie Africa and son Mike Jr.
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This Abandoned Texas Church Once Destroyed By The Klan Is In A Contest For Revitalization Money | Texas Standard
The San Marcos Baptist church was first burned down by the KKK. Now community members are trying to save its history from being erased by gentrification.
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